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Article #1527Re: Defining Photons
From: Jim Carr
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:21
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:21
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In article <24910@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes: > >Notice that masslessness have nothing to do with these questions. It a matter >of spin, not mass. Massive bosons, such as the W or Z, if we were able >to make enough of them to produce a semiclassical state, would behave much >like photons, not at all like electrons. Very good point, Scott. And it also follows that large numbers of neutrinos would act more like electrons than photons, despite the fact that they are massless. -- J. A. Carr | "The New Frontier of which I jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu | speak is not a set of promises Florida State University B-186 | -- it is a set of challenges." Supercomputer Computations Research Institute | John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!sun13!ds8.scri.fsu.edu!jac From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Defining Photons Keywords: Relating photons E=MC^2 criticism Message-ID: <9976@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 26 Jul 92 21:21:29 GMT References: <3942@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> <24910@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: news@sun13.scri.fsu.edu Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) Distribution: na Organization: SCRI, Florida State University Lines: 17